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317 John Deere with onan engine having problems with

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christopher5758

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I am having problems with my john deere tractor with an onan engine. When you turn on the key the wires get hot and it won't start running. I am thinking I need to buy a regulator for it. I am not sure what is going on with it. I have called so many tractors stores and they have no clue what to do. Any advice would be great.
 

When I start it the regulator gets hot and smokes than the wires to the PTO get hot. I just don't know what to do next, any advice would help
 
Start isolating circuits. If the PTO switch is getting hot, that is the first place I would look for a short. Disconnet the switch and run a wire from the battery to the solonoid for the pto and see if the pto engages without getting hot.
 
Yep, but DEERE spent a LOT of money changing many them over to Onans due to the inherent unreliability of the Kohler KT-17's, so a 317 CAN officially have an Onan!
 

In my brief search of the 317 parts catalog I didn't see Kohler mentioned only Onan.
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(quoted from post at 16:33:34 05/23/13)
When I start it the regulator gets hot and smokes than the wires to the PTO get hot. I just don't know what to do next, any advice would help
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If regulator is getting hot unplug it then start engine and see if that will solve your 317's wire heating problem.
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